Hello and welcome back
to "His Words are Life."
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I'm Kelly
Mowrer, and today we are
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reading in the book of Jeremiah.
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But let's pray
together before we start.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, please come
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and still our hearts right now
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and take away the
noise of all that might be
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going on in our
lives at this moment.
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And let us hear
from the prince of peace,
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the words that
you have for us today.
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Thank you for loving us.
We love you so much, Amen.
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We're reading in the
book of Jeremiah Chapter 23,
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beginning in verse 4 and
this is the King James Version.
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"And I will set up shepherds
over them which shall feed them,
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and they shall fear
no more, nor be dismayed,
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neither shall they be
lacking saith the Lord.
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Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord,
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that I will raise unto
David a righteous Branch,
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and a King shall
reign and prosper,
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and shall execute judgment
and justice in the earth.
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In his days
Judah shall be saved,
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and Israel shall dwell safely,
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and this is his name
whereby he shall be called,
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the Lord our righteousness.
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Therefore, behold, the
days come, saith the Lord,
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that they shall no
more say, The Lord liveth,
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which brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt,
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But, The Lord
liveth, which brought up
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and which led the
seed of the house of Israel
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out of the north
country, and from all countries
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whither I had driven them,
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and they shall
dwell in their own land.
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Mine heart within me is broken
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because of the
prophets, all my bones shake,
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I am like a drunken man,
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and like a man whom wine hath
overcome, because of the Lord,
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and because of the
words of his holiness.
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For the land is
full of adulterers,
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for because of
swearing the land mourneth,
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the pleasant places of
the wilderness are dried up,
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and their course is evil,
and their force is not right.
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For both prophet
and priest are profane,
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yea, in my house have
I found their wickedness,
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saith the Lord.
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Wherefore their way
shall be unto them as slippery
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ways in the darkness,
they shall be driven on,
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and fall therein, for I
will bring evil upon them,
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even the year of their
visitation, saith the Lord.
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And I have seen folly
in the prophets of Samaria,
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they prophesied in Baal,
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and caused my
people Israel to err.
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I have seen also in
the prophets of Jerusalem
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an horrible thing, they commit
adultery, and walk in lies,
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they strengthen also
the hands of evildoers,
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that none doth
return from his wickedness,
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they are all of
them unto me as Sodom,
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and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrah.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord of hosts
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concerning the prophets,
Behold, I will feed them
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with wormwood, and make
them drink the water of gall,
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for from the
prophets of Jerusalem
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is profaneness gone
forth into all the land.
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
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hearken not unto the
words of the prophets
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that prophesy unto
you, they make you vain,
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they speak a
vision of their own heart,
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and not out of
the mouth of the Lord.
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They say still unto
them that despise me,
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the Lord hath said,
ye shall have peace,
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and they say unto
every one that walketh
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after the
imagination of his own heart,
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no evil shall come upon you.
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For who hath stood in
the counsel of the Lord,
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and hath perceived
and heard his word?
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who hath marked
his word, and heard it?
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Behold, a whirlwind of the
Lord is gone forth in fury,
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even a grievous whirlwind,
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it shall fall grievously
upon the head of the wicked.
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The anger of the
Lord shall not return,
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until he have executed,
and till he have performed
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the thoughts of his heart,
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in the latter days ye
shall consider it perfectly.
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I have not sent these
prophets, yet they ran,
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I have not spoken to
them, yet they prophesied.
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But if they had
stood in my counsel,
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and had caused my
people to hear my words,
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then they should have
turned them from their evil way,
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and from the
evil of their doings.
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Am I a God at
hand, saith the Lord,
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and not a God afar off?
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Can any hide
himself in secret places
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that I shall not
see him? saith the Lord.
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Do not I fill heaven and earth?
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saith the Lord.
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I have heard what
the prophets said,
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that prophesy lies in my name,
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saying, I have
dreamed, I have dreamed.
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How long shall this be
in the heart of the prophets
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that prophesy lies?
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Yea, they are prophets of
the deceit of their own heart,
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Which think to
cause my people to forget
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my name by their dreams
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which they tell
every man to his neighbor,
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as their fathers have
forgotten my name for Baal.
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The prophet that hath a dream,
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let him tell a dream,
and he that hath my word,
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let him speak
my word faithfully.
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What is the chaff to the wheat?
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saith the Lord.
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Is not my word like as a fire?
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Saith the Lord,
and like a hammer
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that breaketh
the rock in pieces?
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Therefore, behold, I
am against the prophets,
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saith the Lord,
that steal my words
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everyone from his neighbor.
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Behold, I am
against the prophets,
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saith the Lord,
that use their tongues,
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and say, He saith.
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Behold, I am against them
that prophesy false dreams,
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saith the Lord,
and do tell them,
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and cause my people
to err by their lies,
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and by their lightness,
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yet I sent them
not, nor commanded them,
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therefore they shall not
profit this people at all,
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saith the Lord.
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And when this people, or
the prophet, or a priest,
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shall ask thee, saying,
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what is the burden of the Lord?
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Thou shalt then say
unto them, What burden?
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I will even forsake
you, saith the Lord.
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And as for the
prophet, and the priest,
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and the people, that shall say,
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The burden of the Lord,
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I will even punish
that man and his house.
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Thus shall ye say
everyone to his neighbor,
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and everyone to his brother,
What hath the Lord answered?
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And, what hath the Lord spoken?
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And the burden of the
Lord shall ye mention no more,
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for every man's
word shall be his burden,
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for ye have perverted
the words of the living God,
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of the Lord of hosts our God.
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Thus shalt thou
say to the prophet,
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what hath the
Lord answered thee?
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And, what hath the Lord spoken?
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But since ye say,
The burden of the Lord,
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therefore thus saith the Lord,
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because ye say this
word, The burden of the Lord,
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and I have sent
unto you, saying,
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Ye shall not say,
The burden of the Lord,
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Therefore, behold, I,
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even I, will utterly forget you,
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and I will
forsake you, and the city
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that I gave you
and your fathers,
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and cast you out of my presence
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and I will bring an everlasting
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reproach upon you,
and a perpetual shame,
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which shall not be forgotten."
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Continuing in
Jeremiah chapter 24
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"The Lord
showed me, and, behold,
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two baskets of figs were set
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before the temple of the Lord,
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after that
Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon
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had carried away captive
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Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim King of Judah,
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and the princes of Judah,
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with the carpenters
and smiths from Jerusalem,
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and had brought them to Babylon.
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One basket had very good figs,
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even like the figs
that are first ripe,
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and the other basket
had very naughty figs,
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which could not be
eaten, they were so bad.
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Then said the Lord unto
me, What seest thou, Jeremiah?
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And I said, figs,
the good figs, very good,
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and the evil, very evil,
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that cannot be
eaten, they are so evil.
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Again the word of
the Lord came unto me,
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saying, thus saith the
Lord, the God of Israel,
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like these good figs,
so will I acknowledge them
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that are carried
away captive of Judah,
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whom I have sent
out of this place
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into the land of the
Chaldeans for their good.
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For I will set mine
eyes upon them for good,
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and I will bring
them again to this land,
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and I will build them,
and not pull them down,
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and I will plant
them, and not pluck them up.
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And I will give
them an heart to know me,
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that I am the Lord, and
they shall be my people,
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and I will be their God,
for they shall return unto me
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with their whole heart.
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And as the evil figs,
which cannot be eaten,
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they are so evil,
surely thus saith the Lord,
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So will I give
Zedekiah the King of Judah,
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and his princes, and
the residue of Jerusalem,
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that remain in this land,
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and them that dwell
in the land of Egypt
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and I will
deliver them to be removed
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into all the kingdoms of
the earth for their hurt,
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to be a reproach and a proverb,
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a taunt and a
curse, in all places
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whither I shall drive them.
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And I will send
the sword, the famine,
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and the pestilence, among them,
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till they be
consumed from off the land
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that I gave unto them
and to their fathers."
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Continuing to read
in Jeremiah Chapter 25
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"The word that came to Jeremiah
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concerning all
the people of Judah
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in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah King of Judah,
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that was the first year
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of
Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon,
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The which
Jeremiah the prophet spake
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unto all the people of Judah,
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and to all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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saying, from the thirteenth year
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of Josiah the son
of Amon king of Judah,
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even unto this
day, that is the three
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and twentieth year,
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the word of the
Lord hath come unto me,
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and I have spoken unto
you, rising early and speaking,
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but ye have not hearkened.
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And the Lord hath sent unto you
all his servants the prophets,
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rising early and sending
them, but ye have not hearkened,
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nor inclined your ear to hear.
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They said, turn ye again
now everyone from his evil way,
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and from the
evil of your doings,
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and dwell in the land that
the Lord hath given unto you
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and to your fathers forever
and ever and go not after
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other gods to serve
them, and to worship them,
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provoke me not to anger
with the works of your hands,
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and I will do you no hurt.
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Yet ye have not hearkened
unto me, saith the Lord,
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that ye might
provoke me to anger
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with the works of your
hands to your own hurt.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord of hosts,
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Because ye have
not heard my words,
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Behold, I will send
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and take all the families
of the north, saith the Lord,
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and Nebuchadrezzar
the king of Babylon,
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my servant, and will
bring them against this land,
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and against the
inhabitants thereof,
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and against all
these nations round about,
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and will utterly destroy them,
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and make them an astonishment,
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and an hissing, and
perpetual desolations.
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Moreover I will take
from them the voice of mirth,
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and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom,
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and the voice of the bride,
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and the sound of the millstones,
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and the light of the candle.
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And this whole land
shall be a desolation,
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and an astonishment, and
these nations shall serve
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the king of
Babylon seventy years.
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And it shall come to pass,
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when seventy
years are accomplished,
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that I will punish
the king of Babylon,
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and that nation, saith the Lord,
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for their iniquity, and
the land of the Chaldeans,
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and will make it
perpetual desolations.
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And I will bring upon
that land all my words
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which I have
pronounced against it,
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even all that is
written in this book,
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which Jeremiah hath prophesied
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against all the
nations. For many nations
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and great kings shall
serve themselves of them also,
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and I will recompense
them according to their deeds,
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and according to the
works of their own hands.
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For thus saith the
Lord God of Israel unto me,
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Take the wine cup of
this fury at my hand,
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and cause all the nations,
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to whom I send
thee, to drink it.
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And they shall drink,
and be moved, and be mad,
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because of the sword
that I will send among them.
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Then took I the
cup at the Lord's hand,
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and made all the
nations to drink,
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unto whom the Lord
had sent me to wit,
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Jerusalem, and
the cities of Judah,
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and the kings thereof,
and the princes thereof,
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to make them a
desolation, an astonishment,
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an hissing, and a
curse, as it is this day,
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Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and his servants,
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and his princes,
and all his people,
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And all the mingled people,
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and all the kings
of the land of Uz,
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and all the kings of
the land of the Philistines,
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and Ashkelon,
and Azzah, and Ekron,
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and the remnant of
Ashdod, Edom, and Moab,
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and the children of Ammon,
and all the kings of Tyrus,
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and all the kings of Zidon,
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and the kings of the
isles which are beyond the sea,
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Dedan, and Tema, and Buz,
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and all that are
in the utmost corners,
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and all the kings of Arabia,
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and all the kings of the mingled
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people that dwell in the desert,
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and all the kings of Zimri,
and all the kings of Elam,
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and all the kings of the Medes,
and all the kings of the north,
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far and near, one with another,
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and all the
kingdoms of the world,
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which are upon
the face of the earth,
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and the king of
Sheshach shall drink after them.
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Therefore thou
shalt say unto them,
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thus saith the Lord of
hosts, the God of Israel,
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Drink ye, and be drunken,
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and spue, and
fall, and rise no more,
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because of the sword
which I will send among you.
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And it shall be, if
they refuse to take the cup
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at thine hand to drink,
then shalt thou say unto them,
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Thus saith the Lord of
hosts, Ye shall certainly drink.
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For, lo, I begin to
bring evil on the city
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which is called by my name,
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and should ye be
utterly unpunished?
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Ye shall not be unpunished,
for I will call for a sword upon
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all the
inhabitants of the earth,
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saith the Lord of hosts."
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Please join me again next time
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to read the word of
God together, good-bye.
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